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THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1858. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero . 
THE EDUCATION OE THE STUDENT OE VETERINARY 
MEDICINE. 
It is some little time since that we made this the subject 
of a leader. We have been charged with having taken very- 
high ground. We did so purposely. " He who shoots at 
the stars will never take a low aim.” Moreover, we are of 
opinion that it is only by placing the standard high we can 
attain to that status in society which is so desirable, and to 
which, as a profession, we have a right. 
We have declared ourselves to be advocates for progress; 
and we believe that this is only to be effected by Education. 
Long has it been the boast of England that there is no 
barrier to the advancement of her sons. The son of a barber, 
a butcher’s boy, or a cobbler, may attain to the highest 
dignity, civil or ecclesiastical; and the history of our 
country proves such to have been the case. The means for 
acquiring knowledge are now open to all ; it is only industry 
that is wanted to secure its possession. In reference to the 
masses, it has been said, "The lessening of the cost and 
difficulty, not lowering the standard of learning, is the true 
boon to the people. We have no desire to see all social 
distinctions abolished, and in their place one dead level of 
savage equality — to see it come about not by the progress, 
but retrogression of society — to see it not in the equalisation 
of men’s right, but merely the oneness of the grovelling con- 
dition. We have no wish to realise the beau ideal of our 
mountebank patriots, from the time of Shakespeare downward ; 
‘ Ye shall be all brothers, and ye shall wear my livery and 
worship me as your lord. 5 This does not seem to us the 
